122 pages ; 22 cm

The world recognizes that Albert Einstein, the outstanding scientist of the twentieth century, was fifty years ahead of his time. These Essays in Humanism (1931-1950) are more relevant today than when he conceived them. We feel privileged to offer them to the public with hardly any editorial change - a moving document of the workings of a conscientious, profound, and deeply humane mind

Originally published: New York : Philosophical Library, 1950

Why socialism? (1949) -- The negro question (1946) -- Science and society (1935) -- Towards a world government (1946) -- The way out (1946) -- On receiving the one world award (1948) -- Science and civilization (1933) -- A message to intellectuals (1948) -- Open letter to the General Assembly of the United Nations (1947) -- Dr. Einstein's mistaken notions -- an open letter from Sergei Vavilov, A.N. Frumkin, A.F. Joffe, and N.N. Semyonov (1947) a reply to Soviet scientists -- For an organization of intellectual workers (1945) -- "Was Europe a success" (1934) -- At a gathering for freedom of opinion (1936) -- Atomic war or peace (I-1945; II- 1947) -- The war is won but peace is not (1945) -- The menace of mass destruction (1947) -- The schools and the problem of peace (1934) -- On military service (1934) -- Military intrusion in science (1947) the military mentality -- International security (1933) -- Isaac Newton (1942) -- Johannes Kepler (1949) -- Marie Curie in memoriam (1935) -- Max Planck in memoriam (1948) -- Paul Langevin in memoriam (1947) -- Walther Nernst in memoriam (1942) -- Paul Ehrenfest in memoriam (1934) -- Mahatma Gandhi (1939) -- Carl von Ossietzky (1946) -- Why do they hate the Jews? (1938) just what is a Jew? where oppression is a stimulus -- The dispersal of European Jewry (1948) -- Let's not forget (1934) -- Unpublished preface to a blackbook (1945) -- The goal of human existence (1943) -- Our debt to Zionism (1938) -- To the heroes of the battle of the Warsaw ghetto (1944) -- Before the monument to the martyred Jews of the Warsaw ghetto (1948) -- The calling of the Jews (1936) -- Moses Maimonides (1935) -- Stephen Wise (1949) -- To the University of Jerusalem (1949) -- The American Council for Judaism (1945) -- The Jews of Israel (1949)

Includes bibliographical references

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